“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.”
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Thomas Paine
6 quotes“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of par...”
Ronald Reagan
4 quotes“Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.”
Barbara Tuchman
3 quotes“Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.”
Andrew Jackson
2 quotes“There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.”
Daniel Webster
2 quotes“The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.”
Ron Paul
2 quotes“Counterfeit money should not be done by anyone, whether it be government or private.”
Edmund Burke
2 quotes“All government - indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromis...”
George Washington
1 quote“Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.”
H. L. Mencken
1 quote“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
Theodore Roosevelt
1 quote“The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1 quote“Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed”
Thomas Carlyle
1 quote“In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.”